ROCK FALLS, Ill. — One person is dead after a Saturday morning motorcycle accident in Rock Falls, officials say.
Shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, March 16, the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office responded to a motorcycle accident along Dixon Avenue, west of Stacie Lane.
According to a press release, members of the crash reconstruction unit determined the motorcyclist — identified as 46-year-old Shawn Keane of Dixon — was traveling at a high speed along Dixon Avenue before veering off the road and colliding with a utility pole. He was declared dead at the scene.
The sheriff's office and the Whiteside County Coroner's Office were assisted by Illinois Conservation Police, the Rock Falls Police Department, CGH EMS, the Rock Falls Fire Department and Slim N' Hanks.
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